Sleeping garment



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Patented Nov. 1, 1938 UNITED STATES 2,135,286 SLEEPING GARMENT Louis W. Helmuth, Lakewood, Ohio Application August 16, 1937, Serial No.15 9,218

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful im provements in sleeping garments.

An important object of the invention is to provide a comfortable sleeping garment with an open skirt effect with no crotch, and to make this skirt effect assimilate pants, shorts, pajamas or the like.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of the application and wherein like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the several views,

Fig. 1 is a front plan of one form of the invention of the knee length type,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same,

Fig. 3 is a bottom elevation of the lower end of the garment,

Fig. 4 is a front plan of a modified form of the invention showing the pajama length type of garment,

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same,

Fig. 6 is a bottom plan of the same.

As stated, the primary object of the invention is to provide a comfortable sleeping garment with an open skirt effect and to make this skirt effect assimilate shorts or pajamas. Referring to the figures in general, the garment comprises a sub- 30 stantially open ended tubular body portion l0 and skirt portion ID. This skirt portion may be of any length desired, but at least approximately of knee length or thereabouts. The modifications shown in Figs. 4 to 6 illustrate the skirt portion of 35 a length below the knees. The neck opening II in the body portion may be of any shape or style and this upper shirt end of the garment may be sleeveless or have sleeves I2 of any desired length or kind, preferably of the raglan or 4- kimona style.

In order that the lower skirt portion 10' of the garment be camouflaged to assimilate shorts or pajamas for persons who are fastidious about their nightly appearance, the front and back panels or portions [3 and M respectively of the skirt portion are each provided with a demarcation or ornamentation IE to give the appearance of the two leg portions of shorts or pajamas.

In Figs. 1 to 3, this demarcation I6 takes the 5);) form of a vertical relatively wide stripe to give the appearance of the garment having a crotch and a pair of leg portions, while actually, it has no crotch. This demarcation may be of any desired shape, but an inverted solid V-shape, gives 55 the effect, or an inverted V-shape with a pair of separated upwardly converging stripes or legs I! continuing around the lower edge of the skirt, as shown in Figs. 4 to 6 inclusive, is also effective PATENT can in giving a more decided appearance of pants legs.

The stripes l6 and ll of color contrasting with the skirt material, are preferably trimming bands sewed onto'the skirt material. so as to assist in causing the'skirt to hang relatively fiat in a manner to expose the stripes when the garment is donned by the wearer. To augment this purpose, these stripes may be of heavier or stiffer material than the garment itself, or it may be spun or woven in a different way than the garment material or as integral parts of the skirt to get the same results. In case these stripes are printed directly upon the garment fabric, the coloringmaterial, will of itself, add to the thickness, density or bulk of those portions of the garment material upon which the trimmings are disposed to, in effect, stiffen the skirt and cause it to hang in a manner to expose the stripes. The stripes around the bottom edges of the skirt, augment this purpose. In some forms of the invention the skirt may be made to hang with an inverted V-shaped fold or kick pleat at the front and back folded inwardly at the lower edge of the skirt and extending up to a point adjacent the wearers crotch. In such cases that portion of the skirt defined down within the V-shaped fold is colored a contrasting color. Any of these forms may have the addition of a vertical slot 19, of any desired length, separating each front and rear skirt portion into leg portions 20 and 2| to render the pants effect more pronounced. The two sides of the skirt portion l0 may each be provided with a slit or slot 22 bordered with a continuation 22' of the stripe or band from around the lower edge up to the vicinity of the hip of the wearer to give greater freedom of body parts within the garment and to enhance the appearance thereof, or the sides of the garment may be entirely closed. The back panel may have a similar vertical stripe from the lower edge up to a point about the middle of the skirt portion, or this vertical stripe may be augmented with a small horizontal stripe at the upper end of the vertical stripe to form substantially a T or Y effect.

The mid-section of the body part may also be provided with a belt effect 23 at waist height to give the garment the effect of being composed of an upper shirt piece and lower pants piece. The belt effect and demarcations l6, l1, and 22' may be printed directly upon or incorporated directly in the fabric by any known methods of methods.

'may be ornamented witha colored band or other obtaining color "effects. To accentuate this effect, the shirt and pants portions may be made of different colors, designs or striping by such The neckband and cuffs of the sleeve trimming to further assimilate the pajama shirt effect. Either the short or the long pants type may be slotted or slit only upon their sides, or

only up the middle of the front and rear skirt panels to-a point well below the wearers crotch with the trimming lfi'or I1 extending farther toward the actual crotch of the wearer, as shown,

or may be slit or slotted both upon the sides and the front and rear panels as desired. As shown' in Fig. 4, the inverted V-sha'p'ed slot laterminat'es at a point below the wearers crotch, leaving the skirt with an apron portion covering the wearers crotch to make the garmentmodest. In this figure it will be noted that the trimming l1 bordering the slot I 9 extends farther toward the actual crotch of the wearer than the'slot. The effect is accentu *ated by extending the'trimming to the point where the wearers crotch is actually disposed,

- as shown in Fig'. 1,' asthis gives the effect of the slot extending all the. wayup' to the wearers crotch without its actually doing so, so thatan entirely modest garment is provided.

Other changes in the size, shape and relation- I claimf -1. A sleeping garment comprising an 'open tubular skirt of at least knee length, the front of the skirt having its lower edge at the middle of the front provided with a slit extending from the bottom edge of the skirt'toward the crotch of the wearer but terminating below the same to leave the skirt with an apron portion covering the wearers crotch, the skirt continuing unbroken' at the sides thereof, and said skirt having a color contrasting. with that of the garment extending from the top of the slot to a point closer to the wearers crotch than the top' of the slit and to approximately the wearers crotch to form, in

efIect a continuation of the slit effect substantially up to thepointof the wearers crotch.

2. A sleeping garment comprising .an open tubular skirt of at least knee length, the middle of the lower edge of the front and back of the skirt each having a slot extending from the bottom edge and dividing the skirt into a pair of side panels extending continuously around the sides, said slot terminating at a point below the wearers crotch to reserve an apronportion'covering the wearers crotch, and a trimming of contrasting color extending along the sides of the slot and the trimming extending from the top of the slot to a point closer to the wearers crotch than the top of the slot to form; in effect, a c0ntinua- 1 tion of the slot efiect up' to the we'arerscrotchg LOUIS W. HEIMU'IH. 

